governor kasich went over it. >> andrea, i would say one thing more broadly.tes, the unemployment rate is actually lower than the national average. ohio is one of them. it's fascinating is what matters more is kind of the national overlay or how people are feeling in their specific state. you mentioned jobs, jobs, jobs. june's jobs report will be out at 8:30 in the morning. this has become a huge political moment every first friday of the following month. after may, disappointing jobs report kind of led to a very difficult month for the president on the economy. look, i think there's only a few more of these jobs reports that matter, andrea. i think once we get past labor day, people's minds get cemented over whether the economy is getting better so this one does matter. >> it does. that does it for our report. happy july tomorrow we'll go over the new jobs reports and my colleague tamron hall has a look on what's up next on "newsnation." hello, tamron. >> there certainly is. president obama hits the road for his first bus report of the campaign season. we'll

here's what you get with kasich, born in pennsylvania, went to ohio state.o key electoral states in play. but, of course, the real diversity card, the guy wouldn't be at the top of my list but is capable is senator rubio. if he checks out -- look, everybody is going through the vetting process and will determine. i still think there is a long way to go and were i advising team romney, i would say hold that nomination till tampa make news at the convention. >> i think they're all a big if. condoleezza rice is a big if as well. >> she came out and said no today. >> of course she did. >> strong resolute policies of a guy like joe biden -- >> joe biden was a rock star this week! come on! you put joe biden up against mitt romney. >> he ranks up there with alexander throttlebottom! [ laughter ] john adams the depression era musical, the vice president was alexander throttlebottom who wandered in and out on stage -- you know your musical theater. >> you're causing me to sweat here! >> good! that's why i'm supposed to be here! >> i wasn't sure if it was inappropriat

governor walker won but kasich did not. >> another reason in wisconsin governor excluded police and fired have kind of immediate repercussions politically. he was wise in doing it. but juan, if this is equally distributed to republicans and democrats, you name me a democratic governor who has been trying to break the cycle of -- >> cuomo in new york. >> but at the margins a little bit. wisconsin scott walker went out and he had three recall elections essentially. he took a month or two of renovations. i don't see a democrat doing that. >> take a look down the road where we are headed. greece and spain and italy. they are far down that road where they do the spending now. in period of savage austerity. look, the public sector is in serious trouble. public sector union as we saw in wisconsin are in serious trouble. juan, you were right. nobody wants to get rid of all the cops. but we are going to have to downsize government. frankly, the load is too heavy for the private sector to carry without buckling and breaking. >> bret: next up, mitt romney addresses the naacp. in f, 95% of people wh

i think jon kasich in the end will be.h 100,000 jobs. >> i was on the kasich for president band wagon? i know. if governor romney picked who, who would you fear the most? >> i don't think the pick makes that big of a difference, but they need to do no harm. i think that marco rubio is a very attractive candidate. but i think he will get the sarah palin treatment. and he will be put through the ringener a way that i don't think a rob poortman would. boring is not good. >> sean: he has as much experience as barack obama. >> i am not saying it's right. but i think he would be such a threat. he's young, he's hispanic. he is the future of the party. >> sean: democrats are going to try to attack -- first of all, i have been with him. he's brilliant. he is funny -- >> he's threatening-- >>> he's threatening. he brings florida -- it's a slam dunk. as portman would take ohio. >> but it's a bigger issue -- [overlapping dialogue] >> sean: have you to win thome both. have you to -- romney has to win them both. >> you are right. ohio i

here in ohio governor kasich and lieutenant governor mary taylor say they are not going to pursue the exchanges. they want to the wait apparently until november and perhaps have the federal government institute the change the exchanges in ohio. but jennifer what really makes me angry is the fact that these folks, these governors are getting, i guess all of them subsidized healthcare from the taxpayer, members of congress are having part of their healthcare paid for by the taxpayer. what's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander. i think these are really selfish hypocrites. you know, i use those words purposefully because i think they adequately express what these folks stand for. you know they want their families to be covered. they want to know that their health coverage is there for them. but forget the 30 million americans. mitt romney stood with the capitol in the background moments after the supreme court decision was announced action and he promised on his first day in office if he were to be elected that he would start the process of denying healthcare to some 30 mil

>> governor kasich and his jobs council have done a marvelous job of making it easier to come to ohio, easier to set up a new plant, there is a real cooperation between the state government and those that are looking to locate in our state. i know he and i, as an example, worked with abbott labs, building a new facility in tip city, ohio, $260 million investment, that is going to employ up to 400 new people in our part of ohio. so the governor's done a good job. i am sure the president will try to take credit for t. but i would argue that most of the decrease in unemployment in ohio came from the work of governor kasich and his administration. >> greta: we are playing a silly game of the vitial nominee of your party. any thoughts on the vice-presidential choice? >> well, you know, i am partial to rob portman. i have been a long-time friend. united states senator from ohio, served in the director of office of management and budget, under george w. bush, also served as the u.s. trade rep, served in the house of representatives as well. knows his way around washington. i think he would b

i am pleased to see where we are now. >> that was governor kasich.and to new jersey are still without power nearly a week after the storm. >> hang in there, guys. got to be rough. >>> well, crews will be back at the scene of a pretty messy train derailment near chicago today. and cleaning up and looking for a cause. a 138-car union pacific freight train hauling coal derailed wednesday afternoon in northbrooke, illinois, a bridge collapsed sending several cars to the road below. thankfully no one was hurt. >> a mountain climbing accident in california claimed the life of a "wall street journal" reporter who covered extreme sports for the newspaper. michael yrabba fell to his death. experienced climbers frequent the area because there are no marked trails. >>> as we reported here yesterday, the fourth of july is actually the deadliest day of the year on american roads. so many factors contribute to the dangers. just north of new york city in fact, police say a tour bus driver was apparently going just a little too fast on the fourth when his bus went o

folks are coming in and using the computer for anything from kasich e-mails to facebook to skype.is all over the place. we have prevacid settings. somebody wanted help with matching.com. travel. understanding how to use websites to book travel put all the way to, how do i find information like an internet search, and a lot of youtube watching. the headphones are out. people are watching videos. it is pretty great. our volunteers are located in 26 senior centers around the city. they're there to help with one- on-one questions. they're teaching small classes. helping seniors with whatever they need. for a senior interested in becoming computer literate, they can find a senior center near them. >> to learn more about the san francisco department of aging and adult services and the >> good morning, everybody. welcome to the technology summit. we are looking forward to a fantastic day. we are going to start with a demonstration of the wii system. it is an interactive gaming system that allows people to play different activities and participate in different fitness activities together.

folks are coming in and using the computer for anything from kasich e-mails to facebook to skype.is all over the place. we have prevacid settings. somebody wanted help with matching.com. travel. understanding how to use websites to book travel put all the way to, how do i find information like an internet search, and a lot of youtube watching. the headphones are out. people are watching videos. it is pretty great. our volunteers are located in 26 senior centers around the city.

in terms of sugar, we either eat it on top of vote we should be eating, in which kasich can make as fat -- in which case it can make as fat. we eat it instead. we end up sick. fat and sick at the same time. >> globally, diet-related diseases kill 35 million every year. that is five times more than tobacco. big food companies continue to make huge profits. in britain, the bill has fallen by the nhs and the taxpayer. in the shadow of the olympic stadium, doctors are facing an epidemic of diabetes. >> we're probably seeing a doubling of the number of patients diagnosed with type two diabetes over the last 10 years. i would say that about 40% to 50% of our -- related to diabetes or its complications. >> i have come to the surgery two miles from the olympic park. the doctor says the majority of his resources already go towards fighting diet-related illness. diabetes is a multi-organ, multi-system disease that can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and amputation. treating it early is vital. >> patients are presented with other conditions like high blood pressure related to the diabetes, high le

research gentlemen great to have you all will as you just you heard my conversation with congressman kasich what role brian what role do you think wall street should play in oregon. well in an important role but i agree with congressman kucinich that the fed needs to be it needs to have transparency the fed is trying to do too much when you have the federal reserve being the regulator the chief regulator of wall street trying to look into these issues there's a problem with the fed there's a problem of the fed i think conservatives liberals agree that the fed is not serving a very good function for our society right now so i think there is bipartisan agreement before the fed had banks blowing up i mean we never won more than fifteen years without a banking panic in history the united states until the mid thirty's and there are some who argue that the fed help soften that maybe not endear your thoughts but i think the fed the transparency problem for the fed that we discuss are obviously central to the problem for the fed now and this is something that is a bipartisan. proposal and that's. s

. >>> four minutes before 7:00 the big story of a huge overnight fire apparently our son kasich in san francisco police are questioning a suspect in the bayview district >>> they're questioning a 61 year old man may be connected to the four alarm fire from this morning you can see the aftermath was once a three story apartment building now down to ash and rubble. we have cellphone video that a neighbor took of the flames. the first call came in at 3:00 a.m. it took 10 minutes for the fire to spread to three neighboring buildings san francisco fire called out one- third of its staff were talking 100 firefighters to combat the flams it took nearly an hour to get it contained. cruz said the challenge was a downed power line pg&e was able to take out the power line in the course of them trying to put out the fire. the red cross is on st. helping 20 people displaced. people are telling us this is not the first-time fire has struck the neighborhood in 2009 another fire broke out in san exact house we hear reports it could be because of squatters. investigators are looking into that today. >>

one with columbus affiliate wcmh the president was asked how he would respond to governors like john kasich who said they will use medicaid funds to expand coverage. >> what is going to happen and we saw it when medicare first started, a lot of times politics gets in the way of common sense. so, there are a lot of republican governors who feel pressure from, you know, rush limbaugh and members of congress not to implement and so they think it is bad politics, and over time though, when they see that more and more people in states that do implement are getting a better deal on the health insurance and the costs are going down and fewer people are uninsured and over time what will happen is that the politics fade fades away and this thing gets impleme implemented. >> this trip is all about trying to connect with voters who do not have much of an affinity for the president and in a series of off of the record stops, the president bought a cheeseburger and fries at a diner and had some corn and sipped beer at ziggy's. >> i had a beer in amherst at ziggys so i'm feeling good. >> and that was a m

kasich would pick the guy. so you are fine there. >> greta: who would you like to see governor chris christie is speaking at the convention, but who else would dazzle the crowd? >> i like your buddy and my favorite, sarah palin. i would say to governor romney at the convention, look, let's not have a boring convention. i mean, it's going to be boring except for the vice-president. but bring in all the voices of the party and say, look, you may not agree with these folks, those folks, but we are united behind governor romney and i would have that and don't have a bore the country for four straight nights with speakers who are -- who have been vetted. i have done that at conventions, greta, where we go over all the speeches for the people of the senators and others. we would make sure they didn't say anything out of order because that's the way mr. nixon wanted. >> greta: mr. nixon certainly changed everything. pat, nice to see you. >> it's a pleasure. >> greta: donald trump says the president is picking a fight

. >> that was john kasich. he was wrong back then, badly wrong.% when clinton signed that budget. by the next summer it was under 6% and kept falling for years to come all the way to under 4% in 2000. clinton's last year in office. the deficit, it fell every year, too. by 19828 country was running a is your police. by the time clinton left office we were on course to eliminate the entire national debt. today all obama is asking for is to return to those clinton era tax rates important the rich. that's it. let's be clear. this won't by itself ignite the economy. but 1990s show that marginal tax rates of 36% will not automatically lead to the doom and gloom republicans worried about back then and are once again warning about today. >> very good. >> that's what i got. >> professor steve. >> we talk about how republicans have moved so far to the right. to your point, is this kind of disproving that notion a bit? >> it is just -- taxes are -- the history of this is in 1990 george bush sr. raised taxes. i'm talking about the deficits coming down at the

that's been a priority for republican governor john kasich. >> which way does it lean?, 46.2% obama, 43.6%, romney. in a squeaker. all three states here we have republican governors aenl yet obama is edging out his opposition. >> interesting the look at business climates versus the political polling. thank you. appreciate it. which states do you the viewers of cnbc are tops for business? quef a good old-fashioned top states twitter battle going on right now. you can cast your vote. simon? >>> coming up, the fallout over fitness at facebook. why yoga instructor said she was fired after teaching a class at the company's headquarters. is it all really a bit of a stretch? the power run down is straight ahead. event. now get an incredible offer on the powerful c250 sport sedan. but hurry before this opportunity...disappears. the mercedes-benz summer event ends july 31st. did i ever think i would have heart disease. she just didn't fit the profile of a heart event victim. she's healthy, she eats properly. i was pushing my two kids in a stroller when i had my heart event. i've

john kasich in ohio. niki haley in north carolina and rick scott in florida. >> we understand that the -- meanwhile, the unemployment in states that elected democrats dropped an average as much as the national decline, i believe, and so the point is that they're making it in this story, the folks that voted republican where, you know, they rode into office on a wave of the tea party and fiscal responsibility. those governors actually did something about it. >> the question is he going to say they did what they're supposed to be doing or the people that are obstructionists? if you look at the congress, they're obstructionists and if they're governors, they're can do guys. >> one state offering a safe haven. is that a good idea? we'll have that debate for you next. >> 100 inmates walking out of jail and no one is stopping them. never buy the reason why. >> get out of jail free card? >> i guess so. big smokers. pooches and puppies, we are fed up with being fed on. we demand k9 advantix ii. it not only kills

there is a cruelty, in not just southern governors, like kasich, walker, and the governor of florida,ckth scott, in turning down faq)al funds and they did it on high-speed rail which was about pragmatism and building a better state and future for their people, but on this, it's just putting lives on the balance for ideological reasons. i also think this decision and i defer to the constitutional experts here, was crafted, the finesse, it still puts limits on the federal government and that relationship between the government and the states is still up for grabs, though the immigration decision was interesting, because there was very clearly the federal government has the prerogative in the immigration area, so i think it's a very fluid moment, and last point on the brown versus board, it will take movements, it will take movements, fused with court decisions, to bring about the real progress in this country. we saw it with the civil rights movement, having to push years after brown to make realhe promise of that decision and that will be the case with this. >> i mean, it goes to the n

because ohio, who face at very similar situation with john kasich and his -- when it went to the people, they overwhelmingly expressed that support. you know, the people get confused. i understand we really understand the economic pressures that this country has been facing. and certainly our union and our members and leadership, the firefighters, 300,000 across this country, i'm proud to represent, have been doing their part to try to make sure that we help to bring solutions, if you will, to the table. and we participated in finding ways to try to take some of the pressure off the communities. but bill, fire fighting is still simply a labor-intensive job. you have to crawl down the hallway to make the rescue. you gotta make the extrication out of that car that's been in a severe crash. you're trying to respond to the elderly that's having -- you know, a heart attack in a home. there aren't machines really that can respond and do this. this still takes people. this takes labor. (vo) find out on the gavin newsom show. (vo) find out on the gavin newsom show. (vo) find out on the gavin ne

i have a feeling that republican governor john kasich would probably have dispute with the president and would say to him, wasn't so much of what washington was doing. what they were doing at the state level because most of the time mayors and governors will have a far greater impact on job creation than the federal government. what the federal government can do is keep you from moving ahead. it can't really help you move ahead so much. what they have to do is to lay off, back away, not create problems for the employers and the folks who are out there trying to find a way to expand. otherwise they will just move their jobs somewhere elsewhere not only labor is cheaper but more than that, the cost of doing business is cheaper. martha: yeah. we've definitely seen that happen. how do you think mitt romney is doing at articulating this message? we heard a lot about this week. do you see a change coming in sort of his boldness and his specificity? >> i think he has been a much better candidate than he was four years ago. we saw that during the primary. the one thing i hope mitt will do is

hundreds of thousands of those waiting for the power to come back on are in ohio where governor john kasichith workers racing to restore electricity in his state. those stuck in the blackout learned there is no quick fix. >> it is insane. like all the crews, all the cranes, i had no idea what to expect when i came back, actually. >> we don't have any power. it's really hot. rick: more wild weather causing problems in georgia. a storm there bringing high winds, flipping trucks on their sides and damaging homes as well. look at that. but high heat is causing safety concerns across the country this 4th of july. maria molina is live in the fox news extreme weather center. >> happy 4th of july to you and happy 4th of july to everyone as well. we're talking about the heat. it has been a over a week we have a heat wave across portions of midwest and southeast and number of excessive heat warnsings and advisories in place. the core of the heat will be centered across parts of the midwest. in kansas city and chicago you will see high temperatures in trip till digits not only for today but as you hea

economy in your state, that didn't -- isn't going over so well with people like rick scott and john kasich from florida and ohio because they do want to go out and tell everybody in their state what great governors they are and how they've turned the economy around. and, of course, governor romney wants to make sure people feel terrible so they'll vote for anybody but barack obama. and that's essentially the core problem with the romney campaign. ehe's got two big problems. the first is, that people think he's for the 1% and not for the 99% by about three to one. the second problem that he has, is that he can't -- he is running a campaign that is all about don't vote for barack obama. he has not given a single message about why you should vote for mitt romney that is a positive message. if he has an economic plan, i don't think anybody in america can explain it to you except his press secretary. as we pointed out he doesn't have a lot of credibility left. he has a huge problem. he has no positive program. it's all about the negativity. and the difficulty is that is something you do have to

but on the other hand, you have john kasich, a strong republican governor who is doing a lot of thingsate swing state. it's been right presidentially 27 of the last 29 times. it's a microcosm of america. you can actually find almost a bit of america, every interest group, every demographic group, every piece of america is in ohio someplace. that's why it's really 50/50 right now. it's extremely close. ohio may, as usual, tell the tale on election night. >> eric: let me throw a couple more at you very quickly. indiana, which went to barak obama last time. historically very republican state. and then virginia. talk to me about those two quickly, if you will. >> quickly, indiana, automatic switch to remain knee. i don't think there is any real chance for obama to carry it. virginia, is the new ohio. it's very much like ohio. microcosm of the country. obama has a tiny lead. i think mainly because they're such a low unemployment rate. but it's highly competitive. just like ohio. >> eric: larry sabato, thanks. >> thanks. >> eric: we'll be right back in two minutes well hello, welcome to hote

you have governor kasich who took a beating on his popularity poll to get his budget in balance.ok on the unions himself, a democrat, isn't that the way forward? aren't those the leaders america is ready for rather than those looking for a quick slogan in order to get the majority in the ballot box? i think it's extremely frustrating. >> gretchen: maybe that's why it's just announced that three weeks before the democratic national convention takes place in north carolina, in august, on august 11, the union also hold their own shadow convention. they say it's because there is not enough attention on labor issues right now. so very interesting that they're going to hold their own convention coming up in august. >> steve: right. it's going to be august 11 in philadelphia. brian you mentioned this, they are upset that the dnc is being held in a right to work state. so they're going to pennsylvania, which is a gigantic labor state. >> gretchen: sit tight for a minute, brian. we have to start with a fox news alert. u.s. military source telling fox news american base in eastern afghanis